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Giannozzo
Manetti
(eds. & trans. Stefano U. Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl).
Biographical
Writings.
New York: Harvard
University Press, 2003.
The I Tatti
Renaissance
Library.
352pp.
Hardback ISBN
0674011341.
Publisher's
recommended price $29.95/£19.95/€29.95
The
Renaissance recovery
of ancient biographical writers such as Plutarch, Suetonius, and Jerome
led to a wave of imitations by Renaissance authors from Petrarch to
Machiavelli.
The orator, diplomat, and statesman Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459), an
expert
in Greek and Hebrew as well as Latin, was among the leading humanist
biographers
of the Renaissance. This collection brings together his famous
biographies
of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of
Italian literature, as well as his parallel lives of Socrates and
Seneca,
which remained the standard biographical sources for those philosophers
throughout the early modern period. It also includes extended excerpts
from two works, On Famous Men of Great Age and Against the
Jews
and the Gentiles, which contain biographical entries on a range of
Italian literary figures from Brunetto Latini and Guido Cavalcanti to
Coluccio
Salutati and Leonardo Bruni.
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